Vocabulary

• in vain: Without success or result; futilely.
• in pursuit: Following or chasing someone or something, typically to catch them.
• bow in: To enter a place with a bow as a sign of respect.
• cry out: To shout or scream loudly, often due to pain, fear, or surprise.
• light up: To illuminate something; to make something brighter with light.
• desperate: Being beyond hope; prepared to do anything
• presence: The same place or area that a person is
• precious: Having a youthful, cute, and pleasant appearance
• temptation: Something making you want to do/have bad thing
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• crush: Strong attraction to someone
• sacrifice: Person/animal killed in a sacrifice (to a god)
• desire: To wish for, hope or want something
• guilty: Responsible for doing something wrong
• portion: Serving of food that is intended for one person
• debt: Sum of money owed to someone that is not yet paid
• vessel: Container, such as a cup, for holding liquids
• seek: To ask someone for help
• eternal: Endless; constant; never ending
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• lift: Picking someone up in a car and taking to a place
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• silence: State of being quiet and not talking for a time
• fame: (Person, thing) being well-known by many people
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• praise: To express approval of something or someone
• press: Machine using pressure to shape, flatten, squeeze
• soil: Conditions in which something develops
• reign: To be present and felt or sensed by everyone there
• enemy: Something that stops you doing what you want
• mercy: Kind instead of harsh treatment of someone
• offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• worship: Acts of respect and honor to God or a god
• grave: Hole in the ground in which you place a dead body
• soul: Central or basic part of something
• remind: To cause someone to remember what they forgot
• glory: State of having respect, honor or pride
• grace: Dignified polite behavior, as when things go badly
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• surrender: Ending a fight you cannot win; formally giving up
• breath: Air you take in and out of your body
• afraid: Worried that something bad will happen; scared
• sin: Act that breaks a religious law
• wind: A current of air moving approximately horizontally, especially one strong enough to be felt
• carry: To have a child, be pregnant
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• choose: To select; decide between several possibilities
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• perish: Usually poetic to be destroyed; die
• salvation: Being sent to heaven by believing in God
• slay: To kill violently
• forsake: To leave (even though you should not); give up
• singe: To burn lightly, often to remove hair
• sinner: One who sins; one breaking a religious law
• forevermore: At any future time; in the future
• saviour: Person who saves someone or something from danger
• hallelujah: Shout or song of praise to God